Japanese Classic Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA Regular|
Score
6.97
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This Japanese Classic Ale is a recreation of the first Japanese beer made in the Edo period. Please enjoy the Japanese taste, matured in cedar barrels like the old IPA style method from England. bottle-conditioned IPA. Chinook, Fuggles, and Kent Goldings hops are used.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with JMGreenUK. Thin white head. Hazy Amber pour. Nice subtle bitterness
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2013
at 13:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 4
Poured from a bottle it is a effervescent beer that is clear golden with a white head. The aroma is orange and the taste is a strong bitter orange flavor that lingers on the palate
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2013
at 16:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
From a 33 cl bottle shared at home. Pours a clear copper with a thick frothy white head. Malty nose. Mild hop profile dominated by white pepper. Crisp, moderately bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2013
at 16:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Rehills, Newcastle. Poured a hazy orange with a dense white head. Quite a sweet aroma of caramel, tropical fruit and bready malt. Flavours of ripe mango and melon, toffee and some grassy hops. Cereal and butterscotch on the palate with some residual hop bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2013
at 12:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Cloudy amber beer with a strong frothy white head. The aroma is mildly malty, and the flavour is very hoppy and malty at the finish. Overall a nice strongly hopped beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2013
at 15:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Cloudy amber/copper colour with small to average, creamy, half-way lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Caramel malty aroma with a nuttily touch, biscuit, hints of wood, herbal hoppy overtones with a touch of mint. Taste is caramel malty, hints of biscuit, some wood, dry to bitter hoppy overtones with a refreshing, peppery touch of mint. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2013
at 10:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours a dark amber with good white head. highly perfumed nose, almost like sandalwood - must be the cedar. Some malt discernable, but only just. Where are the hops? Taste - oh, there they are! Lovely big citrus notes. Medium bodied, really good finish. Ace beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2013
at 12:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
33cl bottle from Appellation Wines. Pours a dark amber with a nice white lacy head. The nose has cake mixture, something lightly sweet, some cedar of course. No sign of the IPA notes. The taste has more cake mixture and then something medicinal - the IPA notes come through more but the hop mixing with the cedar gives the antiseptic thing. The palate is medium bodied at least, with a creamy yet tangy texture and a lovely elegant finish. Overall, such a well balanced beer. What a great brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2013
at 07:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear copper head with medium off white foamy head, bready malt aroma, sweet malt taste hints of caramel with a bitter edge reminds of decent ESB’s which isn’t a bad thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2013
at 14:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Parkteatret. Clear amber off-white head. Malty aroma with caramel, hops, fruits and hints of herbs. Moderate sweet with a nice bitterness. Very nice! (2013-05-24)
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2013
at 17:06